Film makers Sam Collins and Jarrod Kimber lift lid to help those in charge see light

“Test cricket has been dead longer than it has been alive.” So says Sam Collins, a British film-maker who, with Jarrod Kimber, an Australian, set out two years ago to find out whether — and how — five-day cricket could survive in the age of the two-minute attention span.

It has been written off many times before. “Within five years of the first Test match, people were saying it wouldn’t work in the ‘modern age’,” Kimber says, “and yet it is the format that people most care about, even if no one makes money from it.”

This is a study of a business model that seems broken and administrators who scatter platitudes about Test cricket being the pinnacle, but are more concerned with making short-term…